Anti-Trump evangelicals framed pro-Trump voting as self-betrayal

Evidence

Ed Stetzer made a last-ditch attempt to dissuade his fellow evangelicals from “selling their souls” by voting for Trump. Writing in Christianity Today, the executive director of Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center warned evangelical readers: “If you find that you have overlooked or dismissed many of the morals and values that you have held dear in the past, then it just may be that your character has been Trumped.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 598

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black evangelicals experienced Trump’s election as a betrayal by their own churches — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 9; Opponents dismissed Trump-supporting evangelicals as not true evangelicals — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 585; Prominent evangelical leaders publicly opposed Trump over his moral character — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 598 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black evangelicals experienced Trump’s election as a betrayal by their own churches — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 9; Opponents dismissed Trump-supporting evangelicals as not true evangelicals — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 585; Prominent evangelical leaders publicly opposed Trump over his moral character — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 598 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Opponents dismissed Trump-supporting evangelicals as not true evangelicals #complicates (0.82) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 585
• Leading evangelical figures framed Trump’s presidency as divinely ordained kingship #complicates (0.78) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 212